# Remote computing question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remote-computing-question/961141>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 15, 2022, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remote-computing-question/961141 "2022-03-15T22:52:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2022, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remote-computing-question/961141/21 "2022-03-30T04:46:05Z")

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> [@enipla](#):
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> I’m fighting another battle to just get her to wear her emergency button in case she falls again (she has broken both hips). But the answer is always “It’s right there on my walker, I don’t need to wear it” Umm… no. It needs to be on your person. I remind her every time I see her. But she tells me to stop “scolding her”

A friend dealt with this by attaching the emergency call button to a St. Anthony medal, on a ribbon to be worn around the neck. And which had been blessed by the Bishop. So that she would wear willingly.

[And on his next visit, she told him how she had “almost tripped, but the St. Anthony medal allowed her to catch herself.” So he ought to start going to church more often!]

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**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2022, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remote-computing-question/961141/22 "2022-03-30T16:20:06Z")

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Good idea. But my mom is really not religious.

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remote-computing-question/961141/23 "2022-03-31T01:54:31Z")

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> [@enipla](#):
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> It’s kind of funny, since I moved out of my office at ‘work’ my workstation also got moved. I went to the old office a month or two ago and there is note on my workstation saying to not turn off or move with out contacting me.

You want to restart once and a while to clean things up. It uses memory to recall who logged on and what they were doing since the last time it started, and slows things down.

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remote-computing-question/961141/24 "2022-03-31T21:55:51Z")

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As of an update last year, you can control another attendee’s computer during a Zoom meeting if that attendee grants you permission to.

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**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remote-computing-question/961141/25 "2022-04-01T01:10:53Z")

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I used to use it on my work computer to connect to my home computer if I was at work, and it started blocking that because it said it wasn’t personal used. So I scrapped it and went with Chrome remote desktop. Which works better.

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